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African American Fiction July 2024
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It's Elementary by Elise BryantMavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the complexities of a multigenerational household. So no one is more surprised than Mavis when she caves to Trisha Holbrook, the long-reigning, slightly terrifying PTA president, and finds herself in charge of the school’s brand-new DEI committee.
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A taste for more by Phyllis R DixonFleeing the poverty of the South with her entrepreneurial ideas, Margo Dupree and her young daughter travel north in search of a better life but find the obstacles of racism and prejudice among the hurdles of urban life. Original.
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Pardon my Frenchie
by Farrah Rochon
Managing her successful doggie daycare, taking care of her teen twin sisters and blowing up on social media, Ashanti, when the world's worst dog hater shows up, finds everything she's worked for hanging in the balance and must make nice with the infuriating man, learning a few new tricks about falling in love.
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Skin & bones : a novel
by Renâee Watson
When a confession on her wedding day shifts her world, 40-year-old Lena, trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself, questions everything she's learned about dating, friendship and motherhood while working tirelessly to bring the oft-forgotten Black history of Oregon to the masses.
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